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Azeri Refugee Beaten in Moscow

(December 4, 2008)

An Azeri refugee was attacked in Moscow by three masked men, according
to a December 3, 2008 report by the Sova Information-Analytical
Center. Atakhan Abilov is one of a relatively small number of de
facto refugees who has received refugee status from the Russian
government. In addition, the UNHCR granted him status allowing him to
leave Russia for a third country (perhaps because of the threat of
racist violence), but he stuck around to wait for his family to get
out of Azerbaijan. The attack took place on November 30; Mr. Abilov
was subsequently hospitalized with a concussion and a broken nose.